Byzantium

Gemma Arterton,  Saoirse Ronan   d/ Neil Jordan

Yet another vamp flick. Does anybody really give a shit about this stuff? Vampires, werewolves, zombies...this junk is fun scaring children with over a campfire but what on earth are adults doing putting so much time, money and effort into creating films like this?

I enjoyed some of these...Klaus Kinski's Nosferatu, Near Dark, American Werewolf in London...but once or twice is plenty. None of this means anything. One could come with some rationalizing metaphor for these films but is that what they're really about?

This one was stylish and well-acted...but why? Jordan's The Company of Wolves was at least interesting. This was just regurgitating other peoples' ideas.

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